Re: [ovirt-devel] Subject: Looking for advice regarding user portal development.

2016-01-18 Thread Thomas Shaw
Thanks a lot for the welcome and suggestion! I brought your suggestion up with my tutor and was informed VM pooling is something which has been discussed and considered internally and at this juncture it has been decided that pooling is an optimisation which is going to be implemented at a later d

Re: [ovirt-devel] Subject: Looking for advice regarding user portal development.

2016-01-17 Thread Greg Sheremeta
Hi Thomas, I wanted to add my thoughts to your interesting work! I'm a teacher at heart, so your project is captivating :) * Much of the "template" functionality you're describing is in Vagrant. Please check it out if you haven't already. [https://www.vagrantup.com/] That said, I'm not sure how m

Re: [ovirt-devel] Subject: Looking for advice regarding user portal development.

2016-01-12 Thread Barak Korren
Hi, Thanks for getting involved with oVirt! > > 1) The ability to quickly create a new VM from a template, whilst hiding > some of the complexity from the user. > It seems to me you can gain the same simplicity benefits by using VM pools and with no additional code... While cloud environments have

Re: [ovirt-devel] Subject: Looking for advice regarding user portal development.

2016-01-11 Thread Thomas Shaw
Good Afternoon, First of all I want to thank you all for the detailed replies - I really appreciate it. I feel that I would much prefer to take the more difficult path and contribute code to the project rather than build something from scratch. After reviewing the responses with my tutor we feel

Re: [ovirt-devel] Subject: Looking for advice regarding user portal development.

2015-12-15 Thread Greg Padgett
On 12/11/2015 05:07 PM, Alexander Wels wrote: [...] Note as far as I know there is currently no way to upload templates with either the User Portal or the REST api. So you will have to find some other mechanism to get them into the system. And when I say templates I mean VM templates in the oVirt

Re: [ovirt-devel] Subject: Looking for advice regarding user portal development.

2015-12-12 Thread Yaniv Kaul
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Alexander Wels wrote: > TL;DR > Don't extend the User Portal use the REST api to do what you need to do and > determine which SDK works the best for your needs. > I'd actually bring up a complete proposal first to the list - perhaps the use case is interesting

Re: [ovirt-devel] Subject: Looking for advice regarding user portal development.

2015-12-11 Thread Alexander Wels
On Friday, December 11, 2015 09:38:16 PM Thomas Shaw wrote: > Evening all, > > I'm a student from the UK, currently studying Bsc (Hons) Computer Forensics > & Security, looking for a bit of advice regarding front-end development for > the oVirt user portal. For my final year project I’m going to b

[ovirt-devel] Subject: Looking for advice regarding user portal development.

2015-12-11 Thread Thomas Shaw
Evening all, I'm a student from the UK, currently studying Bsc (Hons) Computer Forensics & Security, looking for a bit of advice regarding front-end development for the oVirt user portal. For my final year project I’m going to be extending the current user portal to produce a user interface that f